Rap Videos

The above video is an example of the way women are shown in hip-hop videos. Excuse the language.

The average rap video is about three to four minutes long with an abundance of gyrating women, or video vixens, as they like to be called, and flossing what luxurious items they have that you don't or wish to have. These women are in videos with partial articles of clothing covering their "unmentionables". These women are labeled as hoes, gold-diggers, and as sexual objects. According to Week 13 lecture, sexual objectificaton is the practice and attitude of overlooking an individual's personality and/or abilities and treating them or looking at them as an object to be used for one's sexual pleasure. The worth of a woman is devalued and women are merely sex objects.